13:58 GMT: Israels armed forces are deploying all of their missile defenses as a precaution against possible Syrian retaliatory attacks in case Western powers carry out a strike on Syria, Israeli Army Radio reported Wednesday.

In light of the recent occurrences in the region, the IDF is taking the necessary defense measures to safeguard the state of Israel, Reuters reported a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as saying.

Syrian government forces have never used chemical weapons  such claims are just a pretext. We have proof of this, which we passed to the inspectors of the UN commission, Al-Mikdad said.

12:08 GMT: Missile strikes against Syria could lead to chemical weapons getting into the wrong hands, said Alexander Yakovenko, Russias ambassador to the UK.

11:49 GMT: Russias Foreign Ministry said it was too soon to discuss measures against Syria by the UN Security Council before the UN investigators report on the alleged chemical weapons attack.

11:17 GMT: Saudi Arabias armed forces have been placed on high alert amid widespread expectations that Western governments are planning to carry out a military strike against Syria in the coming days.

11:14 GMT: The French parliament is to hold an extraordinary session later Wednesday to discuss the situation in Syria, Reuters cited government spokeswoman Najat Vallaud-Belkacem as saying. “The president has taken the decision to summon parliament on Wednesday to assess the situation in Syria,” she said after a Cabinet meeting.

10:59 GMT: German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle urged members of the UN Security Council, including Russia, to back the UK resolution on Syria expected to be proposed later Wednesday. The resolution will condemn the chemical weapon attacks allegedly carried out by the Assad government and authorize necessary measures to protect civilians.

10:32 GMT: The UNs Syria envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, said that international law is clear that a Security Council resolution is required for military action.

10:16 GMT: American and British warships deployed in the eastern Mediterranean may carry out a strike on Syria using cruise missiles as soon as in the early hours of Friday, according to Fox News quoting unknown military sources.

The U.S is confident that Syria was behind the deadly chemical weapons attack after intercepting a phone call from a Syrian defence chief demanding an explanation from its chemical weapon military unit for the action, according to new claims.

Just hours after the attack last Wednesday an official at the Syrian Ministry of Defense exchanged panicked phone calls with a leader of the unit, demanding answers, according to website Foreign Policy.

The phone call was intercepted by U.S spies according to the website, and is now the reason that America is confident that it was carried out by the regime.

The US and its allies are gearing up for a probable military strike against Syria that could come within days and would be the most aggressive action by Western powers in the Middle Eastern nation’s two-and-a-half-year civil war.

Fifty-five lawmakers including eight Democrats have signed a letter that says President Obama would violate the Constitution by striking Syria without first getting authorization from Congress.

Engaging our military in Syria when no direct threat to the United States exists and without prior congressional authorization would violate the separation of powers that is clearly delineated in the Constitution, states the letter, spearheaded by Rep. Scott Rigell (R-Va.).

Rigell intends to deliver the letter to the White House this afternoon and will continue to seek signatures until noon, his communications director, Kim Mosser Knapp, tells The Hill.

Crisis? For who? I am sorry but I just don’t see Muslims killing Muslims as a reason for hand wringing in the US. I also don’t see any justification for borrowing $40 Billion from the Chinese so we can spend $100 Billion bombing more Muslims just to prove that Obama really does know what the term “Red Line” means.

-Russia stepping up defenses at their Syrian base and some troops placed on “war alert”
-Jordan says “No thanks” and will sit this one out
-Isreal calls up reserves, requests for gas masks by public increases
-Former US Naval commander says “we’re not ready to fight there”
-There were some fringe reports of another use of chemical weapons in a Damascus suburb of Huhrer (spelling?) and a large explosion near the presidential palace. Also reports that several rebels more aligned with regional terrorists groups had been injured by chemical weapons contact and were now in a Lebanese hospital. Strangely, they had been evacuated from a tunnel in the suburbs of Damascus and not with all the other victims. Were they the ones that handled the rebel’s chemical weapons stash and unleashed it? Accidently exposed?

Video from an opposition media office in the Damascus suburb of Erbin, one of the sites of last week’s alleged chemical weapons attack, shows the UN chemical weapons inspectors leaving an inspection location on Wednesday under the protection of rebels.

“Also reports that several rebels more aligned with regional terrorists groups had been injured by chemical weapons contact and were now in a Lebanese hospital. Strangely, they had been evacuated from a tunnel in the suburbs of Damascus and not with all the other victims. Were they the ones that handled the rebels chemical weapons stash and unleashed it? Accidently exposed?”

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, the Moroccan-born minister for Women’s Rights in the French government, a “non-practising Muslim” who once said she felt “wounded like all the Muslims of France” when her political opponent Fillon made remarks about the spread of halal food, has called for Twitter to suppress tweets that don’t respect human rights and for the tweeters responsible to be prosecuted.

Any word on when Obama is going to present his ‘evidence’ to the American people and outline his reasons for this upcoming fiasco?

BTW...I am so sick of Fox News only bringing on Republicans (rinos), who are in favor of this war!! Can’t they find anyone else to comment besides McCain, Corker, King, Rove, et al? At the very least..where are the democrats signing on to this crap? After all..it is their stupid president making this decision!! Arrrrr.....(just ranting).

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posted on 08/28/2013 8:03:53 AM PDT
by penelopesire
(TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)

If Obozo Liar decides to attack the Syrian regime, he has ensured  for the very first time in history  that the United States will be on the same side as al-Qaeda or an enemy, who has killed thousands of innocent Americans on 9/11.

Quite an alliance! The Islamic thugs/serial killers, who slaughtered thousands of innocent Americans on 9/11, will then be fighting alongside the very nation whose innocents they so cruelly murdered almost exactly 12 years ago.

What would have happen to FDR if he had ordered our Flying Tigers to attack the army of China instead of Japan’s air force and troops in China?

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posted on 08/28/2013 8:25:47 AM PDT
by Grampa Dave
( Obozoliar and his thugs in his outhouse lie 24/7/365. They are unable to tell the truth.)

Not to mention that at the same time, we have the ‘Million Muslim March’ scheduled on this year’s anniversary of that Islamist attack on our country! Turning it into a day to honor the very people who did it!!

This country is hopelessly lost I fear.

Most of all..why are not more people calling it what it is...TREASON!!

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posted on 08/28/2013 8:31:12 AM PDT
by penelopesire
(TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)

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